Thread for Outland LONDON, UK Applications!

[pinklady]

Don't be nervous, gather together some more 'proof', more recent photos or emails cards etc. Receipts of recent gifts. Anything you can show since you sent your application off.
Then tell him to be himself, answer questions truthfully and calmly.
Don't worry!

 

[ghausia50]

Thanks PinkLady for your support... i just everything will go well and they dont delay his visa and he can be here for our wedding anniversary

 

[pinklady]

I'll keep my fingers crossed!!

 

[TGR]

Hi TGR, Im just trying to figure how long it could potentially take to recieve my passport back... could you share the date you sent it off?

hey vic.aj- I'm not really sure what the turnaround time is in terms of posting in a passport. My husband delivered his passport to the embassy in person on Nov 3rd. He only works a 10 minute walk away, so he just went in on his lunch break. He picked it up two weeks later on Nov 17th.
Maybe you could email and ask for a tracking number? I remember hearing someone of the forum that had that done. Hope you get your passport back soon!

 

[vic.aj]

Thanks for that TGR! Since i posted mine in, I can safely add 2 more weeks to the time it took ur husband to get it back.. thanks!

 

[Daisies]

wow, the last few pages on here have been filled with happy news. Congratulations!!!

Now I must continue waiting for my fbi... :'( :'( :'( :'(

 

[bealily]

Congrats those of you getting PPR, it´s great news

I was happy on Friday too, because I got a temporary Alberta Health card They say that I have to show them my First Stage Approval before 6 months to get it extended (if I haven´t gotten my PPR by then, which I hope!!). Isn´t first stage approval the same as sponsorship approval?

We only got an email when my boyfriend was accepted as a sponsor, never a letter about that. Has anyone needed to contact London to get an official First Stage Approval letter?

 

[Baloo]

We only got an email when my boyfriend was accepted as a sponsor, never a letter about that. Has anyone needed to contact London to get an official First Stage Approval letter?

You do not need it, it would not come from London anyway.

 

[alasken]

So what do I do after I land? I will go to a Service Canada office to apply for a SIN. Anything else I need?

 

[pinklady]

Go and register for healthcare. Depending on which province you're in you might have to wait 3 months. I'm in Ontario, went to a service ontario place to register for OHIP, right around the 3 months of landind mark, my card arrived in the mail.

Do you need to exchange your drivers license? Open bank accounts?

 

[yameen]

After that go tp tim hortons and get a large french vanila. Lol

 

[MandyUK]

After that go tp tim hortons and get a large french vanila. Lol

Wish they had a like button on here lol

 

[bealily]

You do not need it, it would not come from London anyway.

I showed them the email I got from CIC but they wanted an official letter. I don´t know who to contact to get that.
Or I can just hope to get my PPR before the 6 months are up.

 

[Canooknic]

After that go tp tim hortons and get a large french vanila. Lol

And a frosted cinnamon roll!!!!

 

[chrischris]

Got an email yesterday - they want me to give them an RCMP police certificate! So after waiting two months for their own police checks to come in they've decided that still wasn't enough and I have to get the fingerprinted version. I really wish they'd just asked for that straight off the bat when they first looked at the file in September.

Thankfully, I applied for an RCMP certificate back in July when I last visited Canada, in anticipation of the possibility of them doing this, so that's going in the post to the visa office today. I just hope the fact that it's now four months old won't worry them. I've confirmed that I haven't visited Canada since so I expect they'll be ok with it.

It drags on..... Meanwhile it's nearly a third of a year since I saw my wife.